It only takes a few seconds...

[IndyRacer27]

Where I live, the current temperature is -40'C plus windchill. It is f***ing cold. When I was leaving the grocery store, I drove by a pickup truck with the hood up, and 2 people standing in front of it with one of them holding booster cables. I pulled in and gave them a boost. They told me I was about #30 to drive by, and the first to stop. A little earlier, a guy parked near them and said after he came out of the store he would give them a boost. Why couldn't he give a boost before going shopping? When it is this cold, exposed skin will freeze in a matter of seconds, and these poor guys were out there for a long time. Total time it took to help them was probably less than 2 minutes.

Normally, my community prides itself on the way everybody helps each other, but I was very disappointed in my fellow man this evening.

[Bopher]

+rep for stopping. I always try to help stranded people as best I can. I feel bad if I can't stop for some reason. Last Saturday I was driving back to town from Cheyenne, about 100 miles and saw a car out in the pitch dark, hazards on. I mean all you could see was the hazards, and I felt bad because there was no off ramp so I could get out there and see what they needed help with.

[Luke122]

Indyracer, where are you? Edmonton was around that temp today (and yesterday), and we were solid -30 here (Olds, just south of Red Deer) before windchill all day and all night!

[IndyRacer27]

Bopher
I certainly haven't stopped every time either, I stop when I can. If my wife was to stop when she was by herself, I wouldn't like that either. But if my wife was the one in trouble, I would sure appreciate it if somebody would stop for her. But 30 cars drove by, in a very blue collar community where the men outnumber women by as much as 3 to 1, so I doubt it was very many women that drove by.

Luke122
I live in Fort McMurray. I work at one of the oilsands plants, and go on night shift tomorrow night. Quite a bit of my shift is spent outside. I can hardly wait.:eek:

[Greco101]

Damn... -40?!

...and I thought it was cold here in San Diego at 40 lol

[Omega]

Damn... -40?!

...and I thought it was cold here in San Diego at 40 lol

and that's -40c he's on about which is like

-1 billion f

=p

[OvRiDe]

Actually its kind of strange.. but if you run -40C though a Celsius to Fahrenheit converter.
Its the SAME!?!? Apparently 40C IS the same as 40F.

Regardless of C or F .. either is REALLY FRIGGIN COLD! More power to you Canadians, I have been griping for a week because it hasn't been about 30F.

[IndyRacer27]

Actually its kind of strange.. but if you run -40C though a Celsius to Fahrenheit converter.
Its the SAME!?!? Apparently 40C IS the same as 40F.

I kinda forgot that. I knew -40 was significant but couldn't remember why. After -40 numbers in Fahrenheit mean colder than the same number in Celcius.

[xRyokenx]

I was out with a few friends and our car battery died... didn't have jumper cables and it took an hour to get a jump start... and that's only because they walked back to the mall, got the other car, picked up some jumper cables, and came back.

Thanks for stopping... shows there is still a little compassion in the world, lol. +rep

[Airbozo]

Man I wish it would get to 40 at my house. And soon. My lime branch (not a tree anymore thanks to last years freezing) and lemon tree are about to croak with all the below freezing weather. (found a real use for christmas lights) Had to drive through snow to get here again...

Several years ago I was riding my Harley down HWY1 just south of Santa Cruz. I noticed a car in the median and an older woman standing looking at her flat tire (shredded was more like it). I moved over to pull off the road and as soon as I put my blinker on and started to pull into the median, she jumped back in her car and locked the door. I pulled over anyway, pulled the spare tire out of the trunk/boot and just started changing her tire (tyre for some of you blokes). She was on her cell phone calling for help as I jacked the car up and swapped tires. As I was finishing up a CHP pulled in behind me and flipped his emergency lights on. He helped me clean up as the woman got out of her car. She was definitely scared of me and nervous that I was even there. The CHP calmed her down and she eventually thanked me. As she took off the CHP guy and I were chatting and she had actually called 911 to report a Hell's Angel was stealing her tires and jack (where the hell would I put a car tire on my bike?). The cop had run my plate before he ever got out of the car and knew it was BS. He thanked me and we went our ways. I still felt good about helping. Hope I changed her impression of bikers, but probably not.

[Aero]

+rep indybird.

I love seeing people helping others out on the road. Last year my friend and he would drive around in his Suburban with a tow chain when it would snow alot and help pull people out. Its something so simple and doesn't take much time, but it makes such a difference.

Then we got stuck in the snow in his pontiac, and it took someone 10 minutes on a very busy road to stop. There must have been about 100 cars that passed before someone stopped.

[Quakken]

Airbozo, that is hilarious. Awesome, even.

[IndyRacer27]

I agree, AB I laughed so hard I had to get my wife to read it and she laughed even harder. Very funny!

[chaksq]

+rep to IndyRacer, world needs more people like you. Airbozo that is amazing.